Famous Last Words: Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bon Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure

Famous Last Words Apt Observations Pleas Curses Benedictions Sour Notes Bon Mots and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure Whether Inspiring Incomprehensible insightful bleak or absurd last words can be spoken by the living as well as the dying Among the dying last words are truly final as was the case with Dylan T

Title: Famous Last Words: Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bon Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure

Author: Alan Bisbort

ISBN: 9780764917387

Page: 442

Format: Hardcover

Whether Inspiring, Incomprehensible, insightful, bleak, or absurd, last words can be spoken by the living as well as the dying Among the dying, last words are truly final, as was the case with Dylan Thomas, who uttered I ve just had eighteen straight whiskeys I think that s the record Famous Last Words records the parting shots of dozens of folks no longer with us, frWhether Inspiring, Incomprehensible, insightful, bleak, or absurd, last words can be spoken by the living as well as the dying Among the dying, last words are truly final, as was the case with Dylan Thomas, who uttered I ve just had eighteen straight whiskeys I think that s the record Famous Last Words records the parting shots of dozens of folks no longer with us, from those dead for political reasons to those who themselves decided to end it all And it records the words of those who went on with their lives after uttering a memorable farewell but whose reputation was made by their words, often to their lasting frustration, such as the infamous Richard Milhous Nixon You won t have me to kick around any, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference Famous Last Words also preserves the last words of those inhabiting the world of fiction, whether in a book, on the stage, in a movie or on TV Blanche DuBois s I have always depended on the kindness of strangers ranks right alongside Charles Foster Kane s Rosebud and Sidney Carton s It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done The mutterings of the imagined are always floating around in our culture s consciousness, kicking lustily.Author Alan Bisbort consulted unimpeachable sources and original texts in compiling this compendium of 140 choice good byes But not only the farewells capture our attention Bisbort s concise, witty, and informative text adds revealing context to the quoted words Famous Last Words is fascinating, illuminating, and immensely rewarding Reading through the pages may reveal some unifying impulse behind all those bye byes if so, you have truly stumbled uponthe meaning of life.

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